Smartphone users in Texas have more on-demand medical help options

HOUSTON, TEXAS (December12,
2016)

Q.Care launched in North Texas in 2015 and has fielded about 5,000 pediatric house calls in the markets where it is available. The company recently secured $4.5 million in additional funds and landed two health system partnerships, with Baylor Scott and White and Memorial Hermann Health System. “There’s not a lot of good after-hours pediatric care on the market,” added Dr. Victoria Regan, senior vice president of the women and children’s service line for Houston’s Memorial Hermann Health System.

Many physicians affiliated with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital are faculty at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. The affiliated physicians from McGovern Medical School consults with patients at UT Physicians clinic with all advanced treatments provided at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital.